Mohamed Salah has told ESPN Brasil that he always targeted a return to the Premier League despite his unsuccessful first spell in English football at Chelsea.

The Blues signed the Egyptian star for £11m in January 2014 beating Liverpool to the punch but he failed to flourish under Jose Mourinho.

Salah made just six Premier League starts before he was loaned out to Fiorentina and then Roma, who would sign for permanently before he was lured back to the Premier League by Jurgen Klopp last summer in a £36m deal.

The forward has had a sensational first season back in English football, having scored 32 goals in all competitions across 40 appearances and has become a bit of a superstar on Merseyside. On Saturday evening, he bagged four goals against Watford as he ramped up his superb campaign yet another notch.

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The Egypt international said in an interview he was determined not to let his Chelsea experience get the better of him and he has proved the Blues might have made a bit of an error in letting him go so quickly and not giving him a proper run in the side at Stamford Bridge.

Mohamed Salah during his Chelsea days (Image: Clive Mason/Getty Images)

Salah said: "In Chelsea I didn't play, so I didn't have my chances. I said to all my friends, I think I said it on many interviews as well, that I wanted to come back.

"I like the Premier League I lot. I feel it has my style of football. I like to play [in] the Premier League.

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"I said since day one here that I'm happy here at Liverpool and I want to show my football here. If you look at me now and five years ago, everything has changed -- mentally, physically ... everything."

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